[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59730-59731]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-24251]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0001]


Joint Meeting of the Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs Advisory 
Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee; 
Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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    This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory 
committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting will 
be open to the public.
    Name of Committees: Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs Advisory 
Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee.
    General Function of the Committees: To provide advice and 
recommendations to the agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
    Date and Time: The meeting will be held on October 21, 2010, from 
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on October 22, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 
p.m.
    Location: Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg, The Ballrooms, 
620 Perry Pkwy., Gaithersburg, MD. The hotel telephone number is 301-
977-8900.
    Contact Person: Kalyani Bhatt, Center for Drug Evaluation and 
Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 
31, rm. 2417, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-9001, FAX: 301-847-
8533, email: [email protected], or FDA Advisory Committee 
Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC 
area), codes 3014512529 and 3014512535. Please call the Information 
Line for up-to-date information on this meeting. A notice in the 
Federal Register about last minute modifications that impact a 
previously announced advisory committee meeting cannot always be 
published quickly enough to provide timely notice. Therefore, you 
should always check the agency's Web site and call the appropriate 
advisory committee hot line/phone line to learn about possible 
modifications before coming to the meeting.
    Agenda: The committee will discuss considerations for the design of 
postmarketing studies for new drug applications (NDAs) 22-272, 
OxyContin (oxycodone hydrochloride controlled-release) Tablets, 
manufactured by Purdue Pharma, Inc., and NDA 22-321, EMBEDA (morphine 
sulfate extended-release with a sequestered naltrexone hydrochloride 
inner core) Capsules, manufactured by Alpharma Pharmaceuticals, LLC and 
King Pharmaceuticals Research & Development, Inc., approved for the 
management of moderate to severe pain when a continuous, around-the-
clock opioid analgesic is needed for an extended period of time. The 
postmarketing studies are intended to be epidemiological or 
observational studies that will assess the known serious risks of these 
products and whether product-specific properties which are intended to 
discourage misuse and abuse actually result in a decrease in the risks 
of misuse and abuse, and their

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consequences: Addiction, overdose, and death.
    FDA intends to make background material available to the public no 
later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post 
the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the 
background material will be made publicly available at the location of 
the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be 
posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is 
available at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm. Scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee link.
    Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or 
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee. 
Written submissions may be made to the contact person on or before 
October 14, 2010. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled 
between approximately 10:45 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. on October 22, 2010. 
Those desiring to make formal oral presentations should notify the 
contact person and submit a brief statement of the general nature of 
the evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses 
of proposed participants, and an indication of the approximate time 
requested to make their presentation on or before October 6, 2010. Time 
allotted for each presentation may be limited. If the number of 
registrants requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably 
accommodated during the scheduled open public hearing session, FDA may 
conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the scheduled open 
public hearing session. The contact person will notify interested 
persons regarding their request to speak by October 7, 2010.
    Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised 
that the agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical 
outlets.
    FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee 
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with 
physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special 
accommodations due to a disability, please contact Kalyani Bhatt at 
least 7 days in advance of the meeting.
    FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee 
meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm for procedures 
on public conduct during advisory committee meetings.
    Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).

    Dated: September 22, 2010.
Jill Hartzler Warner,
Acting Associate Commissioner for Special Medical Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-24251 Filed 9-27-10; 8:45 am]
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